Microsoft Family Safety

Microsoft Corporation

About this app

The Microsoft Family Safety app helps empower you and your family to create healthy habits and protect the ones you love. Get peace of mind that your family is staying safer while giving your kids independence to learn and grow.
This app is designed for both parents and kids.


For parents, it helps to create a safe space for their children to explore online. Set parental controls to filter inappropriate apps and games and set browsing to kid-friendly websites on Microsoft Edge.

Help your kids balance their screen time activity. Set limits for specific apps and games on Android, Xbox, or Windows. Or use device management to set screen time limits across devices on Xbox and Windows.

Use activity reporting to better understand your family's digital activity. View your kids’ activity in a weekly email to help start a conversation about online activity.

For kids, it ensures their safety in the digital world by adhering to parental controls and accessing age-appropriate content.


Microsoft Family Safety features:

Activity reports – Develop healthy digital habits
• Activity log of screen time and online usage
• Weekly email summary report of activity

Screen time – Find a balance
• Screen time app and game limits on Xbox, Windows, Android
• Screen time device limits on Xbox and Windows
• Get notified if your child requests more time

Content filters – Explore safely
• Web filters for kid-friendly browsing on Microsoft Edge
• Block inappropriate apps and games



Privacy & Permissions

Your privacy is important to us. We work around the clock to protect your data and information to help you keep your family safe. For example, we do not sell or share your location data with insurance companies or data brokers. We provide you with meaningful choices about how and why data is collected and used and give you the information you need to make the choices that are right for you and your family.

With your child’s consent, Microsoft Family Safety may collect interaction data using accessibility, app usage, and device admin service permissions. This allows us to: know when they are using an app, exit an app on their behalf, or block apps that are not allowed.

Disclaimers

This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.

Ratings and reviews

This app used to be good. It's ridiculous now. I get the message "it's us not you" all the time when it won't work properly. I have my child's schedule set 7 am to 11 pm, but it randomly locks out between those times. Don't waste your time with this. I'm currently searching for another parental control app. I'll also mention that Microsoft is not user-friendly at all. It's extremely difficult to find anything I'm looking for. The xbox is just as frustrating.

***Update**** As soon as I made this post it miraculously started functioning again properly. Should this happen again I will update my post. Not tracking Activity. Everything is turned on and configured correctly. It was working and just stopped working 2 days ago. It shows everything is on, but still not working. I've deleted and updated the app and made sure everything was correct. I can still control screen time, but does not show any activity or apps used anymore.

Microsoft Family Safety is absolute junk, probably 80% of the time. Sometimes downtime schedules do nothing at all. Then when they actually do work and I approve my child's request for additional screen time, it's almost guaranteed that THAT won't work. tldr; This app almost never works. If you're looking for something that works on PC as well as Google's Family Link does on Android, this ain't it.

What's new

- Location Sharing Bug fix.
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